:
"THE OLD BOYS."
EMPIRE BUILDERS HOME
FOR GOOD.
BUSINESS CONTRACTS.
AMERICAN CONSULATE
GENERAL'S LIST.
The following is a list of Ameri SOME SOUTH-COAST STUDIES. can firms or individuals who desire to establish connections with' mer- [BY SIR JOHN FOSTER FRABER IN THE chants in Honig Kong, and who in-
"BUNDAY TIME".]
vite correspondence. No respon zibility is assumed as to the stand- Further information may be obtain
the American Consulate ed at General.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931.
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BRITAIN'S IMPORTS LORD IRWIN'S
SERVICES TO INDIA.
OF APPLES."
19,000,000 BUSHELS FROM INDIAN PRINCES TRIBUTE.
AMERICA.
Is it realised what a valuable arset the apple ja apart from its benefit to health? It might be
New Delhi-A warm tribute to Lord Irwin was paid at a meeting of the Chamber of Princes, at which resolutions expressing Joy
NEW HOPE FOR FARMERS.
ELECTRICITY SUPPLY
ADVANTAGES:
Application of electricity to mar"; 'source of supply, their output haa' ket gardening on a large scale was quadrupled. It is now 1,200 mil lion bricks per annum, and the demonstrated to me. This wris the
works by power at the rate of watering of twelve shrds of young s2d.. per thousand units. Tha cucumbers by 'electric power with
works, in four years, have taken water which, by means of an apt their place,ns the largest in the paratus called Π "immersion
world. Other advantages of the jump," is kept at the same tem-local electricity facilities ore aro peraturo as the hothouse-an casen-
that whorens, previously, voltage tin! factor in successful cultiva: variation was sometime 160 to 300, εξαπ,
The market gardener told
it is now regular, and the electric me that the elvetrival watering had
motors car be safely left for resulted in remarkably fast prow-months. Current, tan, works the ing vegetables in first-rate condi- huge "navvy" which is the only ap paratus of its kind in the country; tion of the bedford electricity a weighs 375 tons, and carries uut thorities, and is probably the only Oxford shale equivalent to 60,000 one of its kind now in use, ; bricks every hour, or five millions
R week,
You find them in the more coming of the persuns or firms naine. asserted to be one of the largestalty to the Throne and apprecia countryside lying north-north-east tion. The apparatus is the inven-
fortable hotels on the South Const. I think they have contempt for the big and swagger new-fangled places where there is dancing with after. noon tea and a band plays in the gaudy lounge after dinner and there are other confounded noisy modern contraptions. They like, the old-fashioned making-roon
with old easy chairs and no women
to Juliout. They continue wear saiters, though "spats" have rather gone out of fashion. Their first interest in the morning paper s to read the "deaths column" and then turn to the "wills and quests.*
players of labour in the world, from the preparation of the land to the delivery of the finished article to the consumer..
RADIO RECEIVING SETH AND
This applies to commercial crops Passos.-C. O. Baptista & Co.,
Preparation sometimes 1130, South Wabash Ave., Chicago (of course, 11. manufacturers of radios and entails forret clearance and irriga Then there' is planting, exporters of pianos for the W. W. tion. Kimball Company of Chicago, grafting, pruning, chemical spray desire to export the above to Honging, grading and parking. Kong. Radio catalogue' and priec at tray he seen at the Consulate General.
These operations are the work of the producer, and behind those | actually employed on the spot are machinery the implement and munkers, in metal and wood; the chemists and chemical works, osier growers and basket makers; fores RECEIVING ters, sawyers, and box and barrel to the fire. Imagining him humph-LTS- Emerson Radio and Phonounkers, and large quantities of
You know the old boy with his table near a window and his back
CALIFORNIA FRUITS AND HOSE. Robert Fulton, Silver Peak Guest Ranch, Walnut, Cal., desires, to export. the above to Hong Kong.
RADIO " ENFANT .
ing: "So Scroggins gone; thoughtgraph Corp., 641-040, Sixth Ave., paper, etc., are-used for packing he was dead long ago; remember New York, N.Y., desires to export | purposes. hin well in the Punjab; bit of L duffer. Ah! Fancied Gubbins the above to Hong Kong. Further
Bond, rail and ocean transport
thnt. Thn fout for more than information may be obtained at the form another stage, in each section
would have cut
af n son, however, will soon get through it. Waiter " this aloud. "take away this white stiff I want brown bread and - here, tell that cook wallah the yooper way to buit eggs is three raintes, not half an hour, Where's that draught coming from? Pf course, there is a draught; d'ye think I'd say there was a draught if there wasn't one. Anyway, shat that door over there!"
Straight, Steady Eyes.
of which labour is first of all era.
Aturienn Consulate Genern).
Pyreturuń (La Bix Grx).~Joha { płoyed in the way of special con Powell & Co., Inc., 114, East 32 Street, New York, N.Y., desires to purchase the above.
Giscre. -Simons & Co., 473, State Street, Boston, Mass., desires to obtain the representation of ship. pers of ginger,
URBERIZED FLANNEL SECONDS.—
struction. To trace a box of apples from the growing area in New "Zealand' would reveal an enormous
on to employment. Then there are the eider and pre- serve industries, with all they re-
,
, Steinberg & Sun., Inc., 163,quire in labour, machinery, glass, Mercer Street, New York, NY, tin, earthenwure, labelling, etc. Fecks purchasers of the above in Hong Kong. Samples and prices tony he seen at the Consulate General.
Enormous Output.
A few figures will indicate what
tion of the attitude of the British Government were also adopted, na well as a motion authorising repre sentatives to carry on the negotia tions begun at the Round-table Coa. ference.
The Maharajah of Sirmus moved that the Chamber record with ap preciation the devotion and ability of the rulers and Ministers who represented the Indian States at the Round-table Conference, sup porting in principle the scheme outlined which secured for all parties their legitimate and cherish
ed rights.
This resolution gave rise to rather more discussion, one speaker arging that the rights of small States should be adequately safe- guarded, while the Maharajah of Rewn described the scheme as a huge experiment necessitating rigorous examination. The motion was then unanimously adopted.
In connection with this resolu- tian the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur moved and the Maharajah ot Kapurthala, the Maharajah of Al- war, and the Rajah of Sitmau sup- ported a motion providing that the Chamber should authorise. repre- sentatives to carry on the discus sions and negotiations subject to final conlimation and ratification by the Chamber of Princes and by each individual State.
Lord Irwin's Services, Finally, the Maharajah
?
of
The word "electricity" has be- como one to conjure with through- out a Inrgo area of the English
and south-west of Bedford, where its rapidly increasing use bringing prosperity to agriculture and industry, and increased com- fort to the coltagers' homes writes
is
a London Morning Pore correspon-
dent.
This is the result of the rural supply scheme initiated by the Electricity Commission last year.
I have to-day made a tour of the area, which comprisen more than 100 square miles, visiting farms in which power has only been available for farm use, such as milking, meat grinding, man- gold pulping, and incubation of eggs, during the past few weeks
Economies Pay for Current.
One large scale poultry farmer, who had not long installed the elec- trically heated foster-mother coops formed me that he was amazed at for his newly hatched chickens, in-
the results. "I would rever back," he declared. "to the old system when coops had to be beat- ed by paraffin lamps. It was to un- common thing to And a large pro- portion of the chickens dead in the morning, perhaps owing to fumes, but more often owing to tempern- túre variations. With this ap- paratus I can, keep the coops at an even temperature, and since it was put in. I have scarcely lost a single chicken out of many hun- dreds Not only has the mortality rate been wiped out, but there in no doubt whatever that the electric faster, stronger, and bigger."
Licurry.-E. Cherry, Ine. 20, the apple industry means, Daring Patiala rose to record the deep heating makes the chickens grow
Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa..
Now and then there is a ruddy; faced paunchy old boy: but most hace parchinent tint on the cheeks, and they all have straight, steady
yes, like those of district magis desires to have samples of the above the present Canadian and United tries, and for newcomers, week-together with C.I.F. Philadelphia States season over 19,000,000 bushels enders, and especially those of Quotations.
have been shipped to the Continent motoring gang who comes bustling DRILLING & TAPPING MACHINES.- in for lunch, there is n Who the Superior Machine Tool Co., Koko. and the United Kingdom, the Caua- devil are you, sir sort of glance. days; a enlietor out in Bengale in Hong Kong, Catalogue and little under a fourth of the total, I've run aeross them in earlier, Ind., seeks an agent for the dinn contribution, although only a
price list may be sern at the Con-
being a record. sulate General:
the
a consul in the Persian Gulf: n man who had been building rail- ways half his life in South Ameri- en a bank manager from South Africa: ex-officials from Crown
720,
BROKES GLASS.-P. C. Valentine, Farringdon Lane. Burlin game, Cal. desires to export the above to Hong Kong,
Colonies: n soldier or two, one with a limp, maybe an old bullet or, gout a man who had been in The ton business in China; others change his book. They've all got Not derelicts, but they've drifted their little morning jobs-hair to home, retired after a generation of be cut, socks to be bought, a com- work in distant parts. Married.
plaint to the tolineconiat about those possibly; bachelors, probably,
cheroots-ah, and Bome of those Oui in Afrien, India, elsewhere, remedial medicines which tiddle- they have had stretches of loneli-ged gentlemen are prone to tak ness. So they sit alone, ench withing-digstive biscuits and the his "enrate table against the like a saunter past the shops, a wall. Nobody has ever suggested dander on the promenade, and, if the pleasure of a round-table and there is not that wretched wind that they should dine together from the eusi, a stroll through the and, of course, they've never gardens is agreealde. thought of it themselves. Besides. there might be difficulties. The half-pay general, with i gallant carrer India, does not mind kn orrasional game of chess with that lealdenter from China. especially as he usually defeats him, but hang it all, one can't be expected to eat with the fellow.
Out of Touch.
Past Glories,
Now and then the old dictatorial Adam will out. A taximan with Bolshie attitude toward customers receives sharp. reprimand. The taximan grina: he has had quite y lot of experience with funny old gentlemen. That particular funny old gentleman a dozen years ago was Acting-Residant. in one of the British Dependencies; generals called him "air," and the guard stood at the salute when he passed. Now he potters along the esplanade, tells the hand waiter about the pictures he is very fond
of the movies-he saw yesterday afternoon, and a young taxi-driver is crudely sarcastic towards bisn. Dear, dear!
"Dull Old Buffers.".
|
seuse of obligation which India owed to Lord Irwin for his vivid sympathy and his espousal of the country's cause in Ence of the gravest difficulties. Lord Irwin, he said, had won the heart of every chief, and in the future hals tory would record his great servi
ces.
The Nawab of Cambay, the Rajah of Kotla, and the Maharajah of Bikanir all seconded the motion, which was carried amidat neclams. tion.
Arrangements have been made to ship over 2,000,000 bushels from Tasmania. Allotments of shipping
The Viceroy, replying, said that space have been made for about he was deeply touched by the Ma 500,000 bushels from Western Aus-harajah of Patiala's remarks, Five years, he declared, moved very train. Space has also been re- quickly, and everyone was open to served for other parts of Australia criticism, but he felt that he had. made fewer mistakes than some of and New Zealand.
his critics would have made had Imports of apples in the first they oempied his position. He had
never lost faith in winning through werk of last month, from various sources. nuinly North Amerien, although the immediate past had leen an anxious period. He was happy, he said, that he was to he amounted to 4,400 ians.
General supplies include Sonth succeeded by Lord Willingdon, African
who would prove a wise counsellor grapes, plus, pears,
and, a good friend. Lord Irwin pineapples. melons, mangoes, quinces, pomegranatee, nectarines, assured the princes that the Go.. and grenadillas: Australian pears,
ernment of India would always 15- grapes, and plume; Jamaica and sist them to the utmost. He con- other bananas; Argentine grapes, cluded by bidding all the assembled plums, peaches, and pears: home priners an affectionnto fare well. grown grapes and forced rhubarb; Tunis dates and organes, grape fruit, lemons, custard apples, cran- berries, pineapples, gears, grupes from various sources.
FLOOD'S HAVOC.
WATER
and
TOUCHES RECORD
HIGH LEVEL.
BRIDGE WASHED AWAY IN CASTLE PEAK ROAD.'
The Taipo motor rund which suffered heavy damage as a result of heavy rains on Sunday and Monday will probably be open for traffic to-day or to-morrow as rapid progress has been made in the work of repairing it. The biggest ob saule at the moment appears to be the gaping hole in Shatin where Dr. Farr's motor-car met with an necident on Monday,
They've all been so long from England they are rather out of touch with things. They had been burra sahibs in the inst, com. manded regiments, in the King's zam ruled patches of Africa big ger than Yorkshire, directed the Construction of bridges over brend rivers, kept the old flag flying over the British cumsulate in god-fors- kén lands, written voluminous despatches Whitehall; one, at any rate, over that Shikarie affair, was the centre of a debale
When ordinary holiday-makers, in the House of Commons fifteen the jolly men with plump wives, years ngo-but those are old stories; and who don't see the good of go and now they are home for gooding to the seaside unless you're Lord, how in those swelterings prepared to enjoy yourself, cast a years, expatriated, doing their glance, toward those lonely occup- whack for old England's fair ants at the separate tables, they name, and old England not caring think they are just dull old buffera an anna what they were doing, toddling through their final years, they had stailingly visioned when
Ah! They would do better if they they would have earned their
doffed their hats to them, especial- pensions and settled down comfort ly those who have served their nhle at home for gond than onec country in "for climes. Stay-at-
The tar was retreived on Tues- The general has more
homes do not realise how those old day and found to have suffered very the smoking-room consul what he would do if the buffers, have kept clean the prestige little damage. A start was in- of Britain. Their names are not mediately made to fill in the road. Government only gave him
Anunted in the newspapers like The Castle Peak Road, it chance. The name of Mussolini those of cheap politicians. Officia fared, will be closed for a much is mentioned.
lism has stiffened their manner, longer period, as there has been but in a chatty atmosphere they quite a number of small washouts. can_anbond, with little rominis. A bridge has been wrecked. at. So ences dancing into the conversa- Kam Wah on the other side of Tai tion. They have done their jobs Lam Cheung and until ensy necess and now they draw their limited enn be bad to the bridge, it is difficult to estimate the time that pensions.
will be required before the road will be fit for traffic again.
in
tok the
A
Bome
Bengal and Kenya,
However, it is a pleasant morn. ing, and the collector from Bengal is going to play golf with London lawyer chap with a weak
Being home for good is not all chest he's run across in the Tarbert they pictured. They do feel a Club, which makes a point of in- little lonely. But they do not com. The heavy floods as a result of viting gentlemen of position visit plain of that; they would deny the cloudburst can be vimalised ing the South Coast town to be they are lonely. They are ignored from the water marks left. In temporary members. The collector by the modern who owe them much. many places the water rose above from Bengal is a decent fellow, a Their day is over, and thers no the railings of the road bridges, bit too talkative, especially about hand playing. They are nice old In addition many old Chinese his game and gels o the nerves Lovs, notwithstanding their quiot-bridges have been swept completely of the man from Ho, 006 ga peas, their usual nloofness, and away... As reported previously thers he was one of the pioneers in their touches of crotchetiness, and much damage has been done at the Kenya-who reads a novel a day you will find lots of them in the Shing Mun valley but it is gratify and has to visit the chemist's to more comfortable hotels on the ing to note that the water supply
will not be affected. (Continued at foot of next column.) Bouth Coast.
CHINESE MARKET
DIFFICULTIES.
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JAPAN FACING HARD COMPETITION.
Tokyo.. April 17-Comumenting on recent statements made in
London by Sir Ernost Thompson, the Chairman of the British Econo- mie Mission to the Far East, spokesmen for the Junan Cotton
·Dealers and Manufacturers' As sociation today expressed doubt that the Lancashire textile. in- dustrialists can regain their mar. ket in China.
The Japanese manufacturers of cotton goods contended that even Japanese, with low production costs, are finding it difficult to compete in the China market. They insisted that not only is China meeting a large part of her own demand but she is exporting cotton goods.
It was predicted here that as the textile industry in China continues to expand the Chinese Government will increase its import tariff schedules on cotton goods, thus closing the market entirely to the Japanese as well as to the British manufacturers.
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Declaring that "there is little hope for the Lancashire manufac turers to expand their market in China" the Japanesc suggested that instead of shipping piece goods to China the Lancashire industrialists might find a market for ready- made clothing or other finished epiton products.
In statements to the Pross this week Sir Ernest Thompson said that while Japan is virtually a closed market to the, Lancashire cotton industry China may still ba regarded as a prostosto" fold if thes British manufacturers adopt mo- dern methods of trade, reduce pro- duction costs and create bettor : sales organizations.
This farmer has already more than saved the cast of the current through economies he has been able to effect, Whereas, previously, he ground all his meal for pigs and other stock by hand, the whole week's supply is now ground on the farm in two hours.
Ald to Industry,
On the industrial side, since the great local brick works stopped generating their own power and availed themselves of the now
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